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*Ang. 45.15 [Dennys, John.] The secrets of angling; teaching the 
choicest tooles, baits, and seasons for the taking of any fish 
in pond orriver. Practised, and familiarly opened in three 
books, by J. D. Augmented with many approved experi- 
ments, by W. Lauson. [Edited by Sir Henry Ellis. ] 
London. 1652. Reprinted 1811. 8°. pp. (8), 36+.. 
Wdadcts. 
With the armorial book-plate of John Caley (?) whose autograph appears 
on the first fly-leaf. : 
100 copies printed. — 1st edition, 1613. This reprint was published in 
1812, in Brydges’ ‘ British bibliographer,”’ ii. 465-502. Lauson’s additions 
contain the seven woodcuts of hooks. 
‘© Beloe says of the book that ‘ perhaps there does not exist in the circle of 
English literature a rarer volume.’ Sir John Hawkins confessed ‘he could 
never get a sight of it.” °’"— Westwood and Satchell. 
‘“*No more musical and graceful verses were ever written on the art of 
angling.’’— Dict. nat. biog. 
For an account of the author and the work, see Westwood and Satchell’s 
‘* Bibliotheca piscatoria,’? pp. 73-75; also, Osmund Lambert’s ‘‘ Angling 
literature in England,’’ pp. 43-46. 
Ang. 45.17 [ |] The same. By 1.D. London. 1613. [With 
the comments of William Lauson, 1653.] Wéadcts. (Re- 
printed in ARBER, Edward, editor. An English garner, 
1877, 8°, i. 141-198.) 
; ‘* A very imperfect version.’’— Dict. nat. biog. 
1542'7.2'7(i) Another copy. 
Ang. 45.16 
The same. 1613. A reprint, with introduction 
by Thomas Westwood. London. 1883. sm.4° pp. 62. 
14453-40 Another copy. | 
14453-47 [ | The same. Edited [with notes] by “ Pisca- 
tor.” 2 vol. in 1. Edinburgh. 1885. 16° © (BIBLIO- 
THECA curiosa, 43.) 
350 copies. — ** Privately printed.”’ 
‘* List of books relating to angling,’’ ii. 63-64. 
Ang. 18.78.2 [Desloges, Louis Camille Auguste.] Le parfait pé- 
cheur a la ligne, au filet, etc.; suivi du calendrier du 
pécheur, d’un traité de pisciculture simplifié, de l’aquarium, 
et des lois et ordonnances sur la péche fluviale. Par L. B. 
Renauld [ pseudon.|. Paris. 1878. 16° Weets. 
Ist edition, 1858, signed ‘‘ Renaud;’’ later editions were signed ‘* L. D. 
Renauld.’’ 
*Ang. 24.1 D’Ewes, J. Sporting in both hemispheres. London, 
etc. 1858. sm. 8° Col. front. and col. plates. 
Chapters 15, 16, and 19 are on fishing. 
‘‘ The author is said to be a descendant of Charles Cotton.’*— Westwood 
and Satchell. 
AL 1152.2.21 Dexter, Charles. Angling songs. (/u his Versions 
and verses, 1865, 8°, pp. 135-154.) : 
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